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... 8220;This Dust Bowl Brought to You by the California Congress”, “No Water, No Jobs”, and “No Water, No Food”. Things seem to be getting a bit testy here and everyone seems to agree that action is long overdue. However, this does not diminish the fact that we constantly see people wasting water.

The weather where we are staying and where we plan our day trips is made even trickier by the fact that our RV park is at a lower ...

Well sorry John but food didn't improve much, breakfast was worse if anything, so we have bought some fruit and yoghurt and oats and will make our own. Also tried to buy some not so processed meat for lunch and ended up with a tin of tuna. But at least we didn't need to eat some crpy takeaway again. The supermarket was huge but had masses and masses of frozen foods, and tinned ready to heat food, sugary cereals and ...

... food is in the one location and the car is clean. Paul chuckles saying there are no bears in Sequoia, it's Yosemite we need to worry about. We arrive in Three Rivers and it's a bit of a ghost town. There's nothing here, hopefully we find somewhere for dinner tonight. We continue through to the national park. After a quick chat with the ranger who can tell us no more about tomorrows pending shutdown, we head towards General Sherman's tree. We're a ...

... as he was supposed to be the navigator. We finally found our way back to highway 180 (after about an hour), which took us through a place called Orange Grove, which was field upon field of orange trees.

We headed east on Highway 180 toward the forest and found the sign to the forest. We stopped and then Darryl took over driving. The roads were really narrow and windy, so I was glad that Darryl ...

... to do a couple hikes on my way around the Sierras. I hiked Needles Lookout (the fire lookout burned down two years ago, so no views from the very top, unfortunately) and Dome Rock before camping at the nearby Redwood Meadows campground. Strangely, all the water taps had been closed off, so I had to improvise to get water for my portable shower. I held a bucket under a pipe nearby, though I have no idea what the source of water was...no skin rashes yet...lol